The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1887-07-20
GENERAL NEWS.

Secretary of State Bayard has received
u telegram from the United States min
lister ut Honolulu Hawaii dated the 9Th
inst, saying that affairs are quite in that
country Additional particulars by mail
are expected in few days.
\ conference of Governors Of States
has been called to meet at the Murray
| Hill Hotel, New York on the 23d Of
August, to consider the desirablity of II
uniform system OF rules and practice in
| the matter of the interstate eXtradtion
of fugtives from justice. The call is
signed by Governor Hill and the Gov
errors of Massachusetts, Vermont, Con.
nccticut and Pennsylvania.
Ex-senator Thurman positively refuses
| to accept the Democratic nomination for
Governor of Ohio and the nomination
will probably 20 to the Hon Thomas T.
Powell, although Congressman Campbell
has many friends.
While Mrs. John A. Logan and Mrs
Henry Campbell were out riding at Car
bondalc llliuois, Friday last there horse
became frightened and backed their buggy
down a bai k. Mrs Logan in attempting
to jump out caught her foot in wheel
and was thrown under the horses feet,
Her left arm and side were hally bruised.
Her injuries are serious but not neces-
sariy dangerous.
At meeting of the Bangor City Gov
ernments n committee, appointed to con-
slider the proportion OF syndicate to
purchase the Bangor and piscataquiS
Railroad reported adversely, aud the re-
port was accepted by both boards. In
the Board of Alderman it was voted to
-
cast the vote on its stock at the IN citing
OF the Bangor and Piscataqus Railroad
Company, and he was instructed to vote
in favor of leasing the Bangor aud
Katahdin Iron Works Railway.
Glass dollars, dangerous couterfeit.
are bothering tradesmen in New York
at present. The glass gives ring to the
false metal, The glass dollar is brittle
and may easily he broken with a ham,
mcr
The next Republican National Conven-
ton is becoming an absorbing topic al
ready. Cincinnati is disputng with Chi
cago for the honor of entertaining it.
A Herald special from Little Rock,
Ark, says AN imhortant > conference
of the republican leaders was held here,
Saturday night \ resolution was passed
favoring Blaine for the Presidency. The
conference decided that it was advisable
to incorporate a prohibition plank in the
next State platform and to start daily
paper here in opposition to the Gazette.
Seventy thousand dollars were pledged for
! this purpose. letter was read from w
+. Chandler of New Hampshire, in which
it was stated that Sherman would accept
the second place on the ticket with Blaine
at the head. He was however in favor of
Blaine and Allison, and this was the sen
timcnt of the meeting.
Progressive dinner part es, on the prin-
cipal of progressive euchre, are the latest
caprice of fashionable society at New
port. The various tables are arranged in
horseshoe shape, and the guests change
seats at every course. II does away en-
tircly with the usual conyentionality and
stiffness of an ordinary dinner, and the
constant change of partners introduces a
new element into the conversation, so
that there is no excuse for getting talk
ed out
The Intransigeant announces that the
police at Grosgeran have discovered GER
tain documents which give evidence of
the existence of socialist plot to murder
Emperor William, Of Germany, while
journeying to Gastien. Many arrests
have been made of Prussians charged
with being implicated in the plot.